Stationery appliance



E. P. BECKWITH.

STATIONERY APPLIANCE.

APPLICATION man ocT.24. m9.

1,339,155, mm May 4, 1920.

J TTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD PIERREPONTBEGKXVITH, OF GARRISON, NEW YORK,

STATIONERY APPLIANCE.

To aZl'wiwm it may concern Be it known that I, EDW'ARD P. B1201;- wrrH, a citizen of the United'States, and a resident of Garrison, in the county of Put-' 11am and State. of New York, have invented a new andImprovedStationery Appliance, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The necessity of a device which will as nearly as possible eliminate creases from business papers, and particularly blue prints, has been well appreciated.

It is well known that, taking blue prints as an example, the same have become creased along lines which have made it impossible to produce other than a distorted reproduction when it was desired to photographically reduce or enlarge such blue prints. Letters, particularly those written in longhand, have become nearly illegible due to a crease running through a line of writing. Further, it is often desirable to eliminate creases, where it is possible, from correspondence which has been filed away and which is subsequently needed, so that the same may present a neat appearance.

To this end, ironing of papers has often been resorted to; but this has proven impractical in view of the fact that a fairly hot iron must be utilized, which is very liableto scorch the paper as well as cause a combining of certain elements of the paper to form a paste, which adheres 'to the bottom of the iron, such paste oftencausing the paper to stick to the iron and carry with it certain portions of the writing.

For the foregoing reasons I have 0011- structed an appliance which is more particularly intended to be used in connection with stationery and by means of which it will be possible to almost entirely eradicate creases from papers without in the slightest afiecting the same. 7

Reference is had to the attached sheet of drawings in which like reference characters designate similar parts in all the views, and in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of my device as a whole during the operation of uncreasing the paper;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of one portion of my device;

Fig. 3 is an end View of the same; and

Figs. 4 and 5 are respective plan and end views of the second portion of my device.

In these figures the reference numeral 1 Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 4, 1920.

Application filed October 24, 1919. Serial 110,332,955.

the plate 3 are bent upwardly so as to produce a diagonal edge bearing against'the plate 1, such upturned portions being conviently rounded, as has been indicated by the. reference numeral 4.

It will now be appreciated that a sheet of paper 5 having a crease 6, which is to be eradicated, may be interposed between the base plate 1 and the second plate 3, care being taken that the crease 6 overlies the ridge 2 throughout its entire length. The plate 3 is now positioned adjacent the forward edge of the sheet 5 and pressure is brought to bear upon the plate 3 by the operator, such-plate being at the same time moved slowly toward the rear'edge of the base plate 1. Simultaneously with this operation the sheet of paper 5 is grasped by the fingers of the operator and pulled upwardly, as has been indicated in Fig. 1. It will be found that after this has been done once the crease 6 will have been almost entirely eradicated from the sheet of paper 5, and far more completely than by means of an iron, aside from the fact that no injury may result to the paper by this operation.

Obviously, it will be appreciated that numerous modifications -might be resorted to without in the least departing fromthe scope of my claims.

I claim:

1. A stationery appliance, including a base plate provided with a ridge, said base cated, such creaseoverlying said ridge, and

means adapted to co-act with the base plate and paper for eradicating such crease.

8.. A stationery appliance, including a base plate formed with a ridge and being adapted to receive a sheet of paper having a crease, which is moved to overlie such ridge, and a plate formed with diagonally-extending forward edges, mounted upon such base plate and paper and being adapted to coact with the same for eradicating the. said crease from the paper.

4. A stationery appliance, including a base plate formed with a ridge and being adapted to receive a sheet of paper having a crease, which is moved to overlie such ridge, and a plate formed with diagonallyextending and upturned forward edges, mounted upon such base plate and being adapted to coact with the same for eradicating the said crease from the paper.

5. A stationery appliance including a base formed with a ridge, such base being adapted to receive a sheet of material from which a crease is to be eradicated, and means mounted upon such base and adapted to co-' act with the same for eradicating said crease.

EDWARD PIERREPOVNT Brcxw mu. 

